Aids And Tourism

March 5, 1986

MONTREAL — Some Third World governments are deliberately underreporting the number of AIDS cases in their countries so as not to frighten away badly needed tourists. That's what experts said at a one-day symposium on AIDS and the developing world. Dr. Wayne Greaves, chief of infectious diseases at Howard University in Washington, D.C., said Jamaica claims that it has not had a single case of acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Trinidad acknowledges 16 cases. But Greaves said he found 60 cases of AIDS in Trinidad. He asked, ''Can you believe that there have been no cases in Jamaica?''